While creating reports such as Shooting Order Script, you can choose to maintain the custom shot numbers assigned in the source script or let the shots renumber automatically. Shot number settings from the Shooting Order script are carried forward in other reports created using the script.

Template customizations

The following customization options are now available for templates:

Allow In-Line Tab Spacing (Paragraph Tab): The default Story behavior when you press the Tab key is to change the element type as defined in the Shortcuts setting in the Template dialog box. However, for a particular element type, if the Allow In-Line Tab Spacing option is enabled, when you press the hitting the Tab key, tab spaces are entered at the cursor position instead of changing the element type.

This setting is useful when you need to type a lot of tab spaces within scripts, such as the Music Beats script and the Bars script. This option is available for all element types, except for the following: Scene Heading, Shot, Scene Time, Characters In Scene, Extras, Start of Part, End of Part, From And To, Sticky, and Additional Info.

Extend Recording Break Text Across Page (General Tab): When this option is enabled, the Recording Break text extends across the page along the recording break line. Therefore, more Recording Break text visible on the page. We recommend you enter the recording breaks in a new line while using this feature.

Sticky & Additional Info (Text tab): You can set the font, font size, font color, and other font attributes for the Sticky and Additional Info box from the Text tab in the template.

Brand new template customizations

Other features and enhancements

If you select the Boxed option while adding Additional Information, a rectangular border appears around the text.

Vision Beats and Bars are now center aligned.

You can now create camera cards for a group of cameras. For example, 1-3, 2, etc.

Critical bugs fixed

AIR issue: If the user is offline and the primary address changes, offline user data vanishes on next login

Allowing "-" for the Programme ID field under Series Info

Issue: Exporting AV scripts to the .txt format

Issue: Text gets indented when Additional Info is added

Errors with camera card numbering

Cumulative running time for the closing title now appears on the timings report

Issue: The user is unable to key up on a line break added on an empty line

New features | April 2014 release

Vision beats and bars: You can now enter vision beats and bars to cue camera shots or other vision items using a piece of music. Vision beats and bars are displayed to the left side of the script. See Vision beats and bars.

Sound elements: You can now enter sound elements when you want to cue music or sound. A solid vertical line is automatically drawn from a sound InPoint to the sound OutPoint. See Sound and sound info elements.

Customized multiple line headers and footers: You can now enter multiple lines in the document header and footer. You can choose what fields to display in the left, center, and right side of each row for the header/footer, as well as how many rows you want displayed. See Multiple-line headers and footers.

Ability to rename/add/delete element types from a template: You can now decide to add/remove element types from your script and give them customized names to which your production crew can relate better.

Camera Cards report from the script and the Shooting Order script: In addition to schedules, you can now generate camera cards from the shooting order script and from the source scripts. See Production reports.

Page setup option in template: Film or TV script templates now store page settings. Any scripts created from the template reflect these default page settings.

Part Break Duration: You can now associate duration with a part break. You can also now enter the Opening Title Duration and Closing Title duration in Film and TV scripts. This information is calculated and the cumulative running time is automatically updated based on these values in the script as well as in the timings report. See Enter the Opening Title, Closing Title, and the Part Break Duration.

New features | January 2014 update

The following dialogs now provide copy and paste functionality: Camera Shot, Video Tape, and Recording Break.

For example, the Copy Camera option lets you copy shot information. Later, you can use the Paste Camera option to copy this shot information to a new camera shot.

You can now hide the disabled characters in the character list by selecting the Hide Disabled Items option in the Character List dialog. These hidden characters are ignored in character search results and not displayed. This setting is saved as preference at a user level.

While dragging and dropping items in the Projects view, the drop target is visually indicated.

Usability enhancements to make the Project and Category Rename/Delete options clearer. It is now clearly indicated whether the action is being taken on a project or a category.

You can now reuse sharing information between projects. Simply launch the Share Project dialog for a project shared with other users and click Copy Sharing. Now, launch this dialog again for another project and click Paste Sharing to copy the sharing information.

Renamed column headers in schedules for enhanced usability:

S. Start to Start Time (Shooting)

S. End to End Time (Shooting)

S. Dur to Duration (Shooting)

You can now format the text attributes of the text in the From and To fields in a TV script template. In the Authoring view, select Edit > Template. Now, select From And To from the left pane and then open the Text tab.

You can selectively display or hide camera shots of different types (View > Camera Shots).

You can now add the current date to the script header or footer (Production > Modify Header/Footer). The current date is included when you print the script.

While working with TV script templates, you can now customize the view settings of a scene header to include a user-defined prefix before scene numbers. You can choose to display the Episode Number/Scene Number combination or just the Scene Number before the scene heading. For example, SCENE 4509/1 and SCENE 4509/2, where SCENE is user input and 4509 is the episode number. To invoke this option, in the Authoring view, select Edit > Template > General.

The Manage List and Assign List dialogs have been redesigned for better usability.

Depending upon your organization’s production requirements, you can create a custom report list by choosing a report template from the set of factory report templates. Once a custom report list is attached to a project, only the report templates added to the custom report list are displayed in the reports dialog.

You can now configure Story to recognize Ctrl+number (1-5) key inputs as keyboard shortcuts for entering Camera Shots with camera numbers 1 through 5. In the Preferences, select Keyboard Shortcuts > Camera Shots. The preference is set only at a user level.